Abstract
with
Susan Paganelli, Jevonne Smith, Kathy Quinn, Amy Krane, Beverly Jacobs, Peggy Toaz, Vicky Ansberry, Lauren Shultz, Eve Kehoe, Kristyn Craven, Barbara Neuin, and Tebra Stepnicka
Solon City Schools
Carolyn Bruce
South Euclid-Lyndhurst City Schools
Action research is designed with the express intent of assisting educators in assessing the effectiveness of their building and classroom practices. Lesson study helps teachers use ongoing collaborative peer-insight and feedback about student responses to instruction to develop high quality lessons. Middle school teachers from an outer ring suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, combined lesson study with action research to determine whether the four-column writing method improved student responses to extended answer questions such as those found on the Ohio Proficiency Test. Results indicate that fifth grade students instructed using the 4-column writing method performed significantly better than those receiving other traditional writing instruction employed in the building.
Recommended Citation
Keeney, Martha A. and Snodgrass, Donna
(2002)
"Lesson Study with Action Research: Is the 4-Column Writing Method 4 Real?,"
Mid-Western Educational Researcher: Vol. 15:
Iss.
4, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/mwer/vol15/iss4/3
